The ostentation of the National Palace of Queluz. And it is that in Queluz, running year 1747, the future monarch Pedro III sent to construct a palace, that by its plan, its elegance and the design of its gardens is considered “Versailles Portuguese”. Just as the French palace, there is a true song to the luxury here. The fresh airs, the mirrors, the statures, the wood, the lamps and the tiles that decorate the rooms of the Palace, next to their fastuosos gardens, turned it official residence of the Portuguese real family.
Of the palace it is possible to emphasize his constructed main facade towards the interior and not towards the outside. Thus, it is impossible to imagine outside from the magical world that is lived after its walls. The gardens, in the best Italian tradition, structure in small spaces destined times to the stroll, others when char it or the meeting and others whose purpose was plus a search of the privacy and the retirement. The call House of the Lake or Music is a construction of great beauty and originality that deserves to be outstanding.
The Palace of Queluz let belong to the Portuguese royalty in 1908 and happened to comprise of National Patrimony. Its perfect conservation nowadays shows all the elements to us necessary so that a garden was described as ideal by the inhabitants of the time, besides to be considered as only between the real residences of its time.